{"id":51277,"date":"2019-11-20T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51277"},"modified":"2019-11-20T08:57:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:57:42","slug":"turkey-threatens-to-look-elsewhere-if-f-35-dispute-with-u-s-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51277","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Threatens To &#8220;Look Elsewhere&#8221; If F-35 Dispute With U.S. Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANKARA, Nov 20 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; If the U.S. stance on delivery of F-35 fighter jets does not change, Turkey would be forced to &#8220;look elsewhere&#8221; to meet its defence necessities, Turkish President, Recep Erdogan, said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If the current disagreement on F-35 fighter jets continues, Turkey must look elsewhere, to meet its medium-term needs,&#8221; Erdogan said, while addressing his party members at parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Turkish president was referring to his meeting last week with U.S. President, in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey would not step back from its deployment of the Russian S-400 air defence systems, Erdogan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There are efforts to turn the S-400&#8217;s into a key problem of bilateral matters. We have agreed (with Trump) to seek ways to resolve the S-400 issue, he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s procurement of the Russian S-400 missile defence systems prompted the Trump administration to suspend Ankara from the F-35 fifth-generation joint strike fighter programme, in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia has expressed its readiness for a potential agreement with Turkey, on the sale of Russian Su-35 or Su-57 aircraft.&#8211; NNN-ANADOLU  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Nov 20 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; If the U.S. stance on delivery of F-35 fighter jets does not change, Turkey would be forced to &#8220;look elsewhere&#8221; to meet its defence necessities, Turkish President, Recep Erdogan, said. &#8220;If the current disagreement on F-35 fighter jets continues, Turkey must look elsewhere, to meet its medium-term needs,&#8221; Erdogan said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}